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Early Sunday morning, two air traffic officials were caught suspended. They were caught watching a movie on a portable DVD player. The worker was watching the movie while working the radar position. For more than three minutes the movie played across the radio frequency. The problem was brought to air traffic control's attention by the pilot of a military aircraft using an alternate frequency. This is leading to a nationwide tour by top FAA officials and union representatives, to discuss professionalism and safety at air traffic control centers.

I would not want to fly on an airline where people watch movies and sleep instead of doing there job. This stuff needs to be cracked down on.

Good, they should be suspended. You shouldn't be watching a movie while your at work. What if somebody that was dangerous snuck past and hurt somebody? They need to find two more serious officials, one's that will do their job right

Federal officials say the analysis of DNA from relatives confirms that Osama bin Laden is dead. However, the federal officials have not disclosed the relationship of the family. The test confirmed his identity with 99.9 percent accuracy. Since the tests were so accurate they believe that source of the DNA must have been from a parent or child of bin Laden. However, bin Laden did not have any full siblings. He did have 50 half-siblings, some of them had close ties to the United States.

A venomous Egyptian cobra went missing from New York's Bronx Zoo. Zoo officials said they are confident the 20-inch-long snake is contained in a nonpublic, isolated area of the building.The Egyptian cobra is most commonly found in North Africa. The venom destroys nerve tissue and causes paralysis and death due to respiratory failure. It can kill a human in less than 15mins and a fully grown elephant in 3 hours.

James ~ be sure when summarizing, you summarize. I can see that you chose various facts/sentences throughout the article and what you chose was great in giving a short overview of the important parts of this article. Be sure, however, to always use your own words to retell what you read versus direct sentences from the source. Did I just see somewhere, too, that one escaped in California?

There was a subway bombing that left 12 people dead. It also left more than 200 wounded in Belarus. The interior minister says it was a radio-controlled bomb that was used. The bomb was placed under a bench at a busy subway station. He also says, police have created composite pictures of two male suspects using testimony from witnesses. Another official says several people have been detained in the investigation. It's not clear if those people are considered suspects. Earlier, the domestic security agency in the former Soviet nation said it had identified the likely attacker.

That is horrible. Twelve innocent people died for most likely no reason.

A Boy Scout troop from Lafayette, Louisiana was found Tuesday. The campsite was found by helicopter a National Guard helicopter.The scouts were being transferred by helicopter to a command post. All the boys are fine. officials were confident the troop was safe, saying the scout master with the troop was very experienced and serves as a backpacking trainer. The average age of the youths is 14.

That is a great thing that they found the troop!

if they would have not took off then they would not have got lost in the first place

According to the University of Michigan's annual survey of the Nation's adolescents, in 2006, about one- fifth of U.S. seniors smoked monthly, down from more than one-third who did so in 1996. Signs in the most recent surveys indicate that smoking among younger teenagers might be on the rise. The cost of cigarettes, usually a strong predictor of a decline in teen smoking, continues to rise. Yet more than 40% of high school students today have tried smoking before they graduated. The only thing left to do is to raise the legal purchasing age to 21.

Well you know today 12 year old children can simply get cigarettes with the slightest ease. So I really don't think its such a big deal, but if I was the Cigarette company I sure would be. Also Next where going to have to be 30 to drink and 26 as an official adult. FREEEEEEDOOOOMMMMM!!!!! lol

I think the price should be doubled, maybe even tripled. There are no benefits to smoking at all. Just a way for tough guys to waste money maybe. If the prices are raised, people will still buy them I know. But that just goes to show you how addicting they are. Better yet, the age should be changed to 21. Change both of those variables and you'll see a positive change in our citizens, thats my opinion though.

A robot Japanese used found sauna-like conditions inside the reactor number 2 building at the Fukashima Daiichi power plant. The number two reactor has less radiation in it then the other reactors says the building owner. Reactor No. 2 is said to be leaking radioactive water. The water is filling the basement of the turbine plant and utility tunnels. The robot they used to go into the plant found temperatures up to 106F and humidity from 94-99 percent. The conditions were so bad that they fogged up the lenses of the probe's cameras, causing operators to get the robot out after only a few minutes, company officials said.

Robots are getting a lot smarter as the years go on. I wish I had one.